7/5/2023 0 Comments The Faraway Lurs by Harry Behn![]() ![]() ![]() It seems a very long time ago when the Achaeans had just come out of the north to Greece to start what we call western civilization. you may be surprised to find those ancient people so much like people today. ~Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865–1895, 1931 The commonest axiom of history is that every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Christopher Morley, "To a New Yorker a Hundred Years Hence," 1921 So you will fail, as we have and you will laugh, as we have - but not so heartily, we insist no one has ever laughed the way your tremulous granfers did, old chap! And you will go on about your business, as we did, and be just as certain that you and your concerns are the very climax of human gravity and worth. The fathers of our fathers, they were men! ~Madison Cawein, 1898 It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ![]()
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